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Ranunculus asiaticus L. is the only Ranunculus species cultivated for its ornamental value. Most often it is grown as a cut flower, but also as flowering potted plant it is gaining importance for gardening and landscape design. The commercial production is done either via seeds or through the underground storage organs (hereafter called tuberous roots) which are gathered at the end of the seedling cultivation period; these latter ones are flowering faster and more profusely, and for this reason the tuberous roots are mainly used in the commercial practice. Detailed plant morphological characteristics which are important for breeding and different factors influencing in vitro pollen germination are described in this chapter. Often no fertilization barriers are noticed in cross-pollinations and self-pollinations in intraspecific crosses, but some of the cultivars (e.g., ‘Alfa’) show self-incompatibility, and even an occurrence of apomixis is assumed. Breeding goals and perspectives in commercial breeding are discussed for both cut flower and pot plant production.

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  1. Regional Institute for Floriculture (IRF), Sanremo (IM), Italy

    Margherita Beruto & Serena Viglione

  2. Biancheri Creations, Camporosso (IM), Italy

    Mario Rabaglio

  3. Ghent University, Department Plants and Crops, Ghent, Belgium

    Marie-Christine Van Labeke

  4. Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Plant Sciences Unit, Applied Genetics and Breeding, Melle, Belgium

    Emmy Dhooghe

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Beruto, M., Rabaglio, M., Viglione, S., Van Labeke, MC., Dhooghe, E. (2018). Ranunculus . In: Van Huylenbroeck, J. (eds) Ornamental Crops. Handbook of Plant Breeding, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90698-0_25

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